Dunlop Peak

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Dunlop Peak
height 1330  m
location Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Framnes Mountains
Coordinates 67 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  S , 62 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 67 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  S , 62 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  E
Dunlop Peak (Antarctica)
Dunlop Peak

The Dunlop Peak is a 1,330  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It belongs to the Smith Peaks and rises in the David Range of the Framnes Mountains 1.5 km south of Mount Hordern .

Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the Australian physicist Ross Dunlop, who carried out studies on cosmic rays at Mawson Station in 1959 .

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